(a) What is the mass defect of the 1H atom due to the binding energy of the...

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(a) What is the mass defect of the 1H atom due to the binding energy of the electron (in the ground state)?
(b) Should we worry about this mass defect when we calculate the mass of the 1H nucleus by subtracting the mass of one electron from the mass of the 1H atom?
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Physics

ISBN: 978-0077339685

2nd edition

Authors: Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson, Robert Richardson

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